French defender Lucas Hernandez was briefly locked up for violating a court order banning him from contacting his girlfriend, the Madrid tribunal said.

The 21-year-old Atletico Madrid defender and his girlfriend were each sentenced to 31 hours of community service in February following a violent altercation.

They were also ordered not to see each other for six months.

Hernandez was arrested on Tuesday and held in detention for several hours for having “infringed the protection measures imposed by the Madrid penal court, which has banned him from approaching within 500 metres or entering into communication with Amelia de la O. L.”, the Madrid High Court said in a statement.

Hernandez was arrested at the Madrid airport in the company of his girlfriend, who was not arrested as her own restraining order has not yet been ratified.

According to the Onda Cero radio station, the two arrived at the airport after returning from a holiday in the Bahamas.

In February, Hernandez had been arrested after his girlfriend was taken to hospital with minor injuries following a fight between them.

Neither made a complaint against the other but Spain’s public prosecutor charged both anyway.

Hernandez’s younger brother Theo, 19, has also been in trouble recently.

The highly-rated teenager, who is also an Atletico player but looks set to move to Real Madrid this summer, was cleared last week after a complaint of sexual assault had been made against him.

What was the issue between Lucas Hernandez and Amelia De la Ossa Lorente?

Footballing matters may be the least of Lucas Hernandez’s worries as he stands trial for domestic violence of February 21 after a fight with his girlfriend, Amelia Lorente.

That date will also see Atletico Madrid face Bayer Leverkusen in the Champions League, seemingly without their defender who was arrested last Friday.

Now, Onda Cero’s El Transistor have revealed the judicial report overseeing Hernandez’s case.

“The indictment is directed towards Lucas François Bernard Hernandez, of legal age, a French national who is without a criminal record, and Amelia De la Ossa Lorente, who is of legal age, with a criminal record that can not be counted for recidivism purposes,” read the report.

“The accused, at the time of the following events, maintained a sentimental relationship of about five months in duration and both coexisted at the same address. About 02.30 on February 3, the defendant arrived in the car of his property, a Nissan, with Amelia waiting in the street at the door of his home.

“The accused entered the vehicle, sitting in the passenger seat, and asked for her wallet and mobile phone, starting a discussion between them, in the course of which the accused, in the spirit of impairing his physical integrity and while carrying some keys, assaulted Lucas on the right cheek and neck.

“Then Amelia got out of the car and with those keys, Amelia scratched the vehicle and hit it on the side. Seeing what had happened, the accused went to her and also with the intention of impairing her physical integrity, he grabbed Amelia tightly around her waist, beginning a struggle in which the accused hit her in the ribs, back, right arm, jaw, and upper lip region.

“In the course of this struggle, Amelia hits her right elbow on a wall. As a consequence of these facts, the defendant suffered a scratch in the right middle facial region, scratches to the right side of her neck, which it took four days to cure. All of them are not impediments to their usual occupations.

“The patient suffered a bruise on the jaw without bruising, swelling on the upper lip, the gums, lacerations on the right elbow, right forearm and left arm, and the ribs. All injuries are not impeding their usual occupations.

“The damages caused in the case have been appraised expertly as 390 euros.The defendants do not claim compensation for injuries or damage to the vehicle.

“The facts described are constitutive, as for the accused, of a crime of domestic violence and a crime of damages. The accused is charged with a crime of domestic violence.

“The following penalties should be imposed: the accused, for the crime of domestic violence, the penalty four months imprisonment, special disqualification for the right to suffrage passive during the time of the sentence, deprivation of the right to possession and possession of arms for two years. The prohibition to approach less than 500 meters from Lucas, as well as to his home and his place of work, as well as the prohibition of communicating with him by any means for the term of two years.

“And for the crime of damages, a fine of two months at a rate of 10 euros per day in the personal liability subsidiary of one day of deprivation of liberty for every two unpaid installments.

“The accused, for the crime of domestic violence, should be sentenced to seven months imprisonment, special disqualification for the right to suffrage during the time of the conviction, deprivation of the right to possession and possession of arms for three years, and it is appropriate to impose a prohibition on approaching Amelia at less than 500 meters, as well as at his home and at her place of work, and a prohibition against communicating with her by any means for a period of two years.”